Can some job growth hurt the economy?

Gregory Warner of Marketplace takes a look at the complicated role that health care plays in the economy. He visits Oakland County, Mich., where local officials see building hospitals as a way to boost the economy by creating recession-proof jobs. The problem, critics say, is that having half-full hospitals competing for the same privately insured patients runs up medical costs, and that makes it harder for businesses and governments to pay for health insurance.

For a fictional, animated version, watch this animated short film Warner made about the medical arms race and its implications.

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James Wadleigh, CEO of Connecticut’s health insurance exchange, Access Health CT, will step down from his post in April. He has worked at Access Health CT since 2012 and became the organization’s chief executive in 2015.